| --- On Wed, 9/29/10, robert-blau@webtv.net <robert-blau@webtv.net> wrote: Uh-oh . . . >http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/worldwide-groundwater-depletion-rate-accelerating > > > Worldwide groundwater depletion rate accelerating > > Published 27 September 2010 > > In recent decades, the rate at which humans worldwide are pumping dry the > vast underground stores of water that billions depend on has more than > doubled; if water was siphoned from the Great Lakes as rapidly as water is > pumped out of underground reservoirs, the Great Lakes would go bone-dry in > around 80 years. This isn't any surprise to me. I heard in the mid-1970s that the first really big resource crisis would be fresh water. Everything I've heard since has just confirmed it. Diorite |
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